About Us
People of faith are mounting a religious and moral response to global warming. This response is motivated by love for our neighbors (the innocent poor will suffer the most) and our call to be responsible in our relationships with nature and to be stewards of God’s creation.
Solving this problem requires long-term hope and vision that is so familiar within our religious traditions, but is often at odds with our world today.
RI Interfaith Power and Light interfaith programs reaches the community with aims to bring the strength of our religious institutions to provide the hope and vision we need to meet the challenges of rising energy costs, the transition to renewable energies and protecting life, especially that of our most vulnerable people, from the negative impacts of climate change.
Reducing our collective carbon footprint begins with a measure of where we are today. Collectively, we changed the face of America over the abolition of slavery, women's right to vote, the civil rights movement, passage of the Endangered Species Act and the recent ban on mountaintop coal removal. Let's get together today to respond to the challenge of global warming.
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Email: info@riipl.org
Our History
Copyright @ 2011 Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light
Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light c/o Mediator
50 Rounds Ave. Providence RI 02907 401-261-3426 info@riipl.org
Member congregations receive additional programming support from RI IPL and form an integral part of developing statewide programs undertaken by the interfaith community to collectively reduce our carbon footprint and educate members of community on the moral urgency of acting to reduce global greenhouse gases to near zero. Learn more about the successful steps to reduce global warming taken by members of the RI IPL faith community.
We invite to join with us to help make a difference to end global warming.
Read the RI IPL Congregation or Parish Pledge and take a downloadable version to your faith organization.
Meet our Staff and volunteer Board of Directors:
Liz Marsis, RI IPL Director
Affil: Mediator Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist
Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light is a statewide chapter of The Regeneration Project’s national Interfaith Power and Light campaign, a national non-profit organization with offices in 38 states lead by Rev. Sally Bingham. Since our founding by Howard Brown in 2007, we have grown into a network of over 300 Rhode Island congregations and religious institutions who are committed to a religious response to global warming.
Christine Muller, President
Affil: (Baha'i)
Ray Frackelton, Treasurer
Affil: Newman Congregational, UCC (Congregational)
Kim Caron
Affil: Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence
Betsy Cazden
Affil: Providence Friends Meeting (Quaker)
Marty Cooper
Affil: Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island
Edmund Jones
Affil: Open Table of Christ, UMC (Methodist)
Tom Mack
Affil: Unitarian Universalist Church of South County
Bill Patenaude
Affil: (Roman Catholic)
Rabbi Richard Perlman
Affil: Temple Am David (Jewish Conservative)
Rev. Dr. Anita Schell-Lambert
Affil: Emmanuel Church (Episcopal)
Meet RI IPL's Board
